Why is that a bad thing? It is awesome if someone is intellectual and job focused, but it's similarly fine if someone is not. We can't all be paper pushers or professors - we should be grateful to those in the service industry.
If we didn't "lose" people to "low-skilled service jobs" then there'd be a lot more competition for high end jobs, which would drag up costs across the board.
It's a bad thing if those in the "low-skilled service jobs" are there because they gave up on something bigger.
It's a good thing if they are in those "low-skilled service jobs" because that's where they are happy.
Likewise, it would have been bad for the likes of Steve Wozniak to have lived his life as a cubicle-dwelling random engineer, rather than to have blessed the world with his bigger ideas. We should all aim for what we really want to do in life... our highest potential. If that's food service, then great! Do it with gusto! But don't settle for food service out of giving up on something else.
You forget, Woz liked his job at HP before Apple and was reluctant to leave. Jobs had to get all Woz's family and friends to talk to him before he went and quit HP.
It's a bad thing if those in the "low-skilled service jobs" are there because they gave up on something bigger.
Are the people with the drive and ambition to do something bigger the type to give up? It seems like a catch 22 to me.
There are many successful people who grew up poor, uneducated, and even in violent family situations, but are now successful. They may have even had a "low skilled service job" at one point. It's good we have people to work those jobs - we need them, and it appears to be no serious impediment to true ambition and skill.
Likewise, it would have been bad for the likes of Steve Wozniak to have lived his life as a cubicle-dwelling random engineer, rather than to have blessed the world with his bigger ideas.
Without Steve Jobs' endless gusto and encouragement, that might have happened. It's not necessarily that we give up on things and end up with crappy jobs.. it's usually that we have crappy jobs and then things come along and inspire us out of it.
If we didn't "lose" people to "low-skilled service jobs" then there'd be a lot more competition for high end jobs, which would drag up costs across the board.